Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 20, 1920, Page 2

T C0 NOW.S| NEW g | Allatabaa 15 the holy city of the Gerke’s C binet Sh HOPE lN PRES OBREGQN : . | Indian Mohammedans, Benares 13 the erke's Labine op o | B Yo , . |holy city of the Hindoos, while Cuzco Repairing all kinds of fur- . - % § |is that of the ancient Incas. Jeru- i ilder of Tables, salerft is the holy city of the Jews and nfi:g;: amli> eb ; (;;gals Phono- Christians. ' Mecea,, Medina and Da- ”. ¥ el graph Cabinets, etc. -~ mascus have first place in the affec- -| tions of the Mohammedans. Call and see me or phone . your order—We bick up and deliver on request. N ""119_Minnesota Ave. 980 Phone 980 | - BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. | 3 Nation I E. CARSON, President F. H. DENU, Sec. and up.!w“"“"' of NationIs the G. W. HARNWELL, Editor _ J. D. WINTER, City. Editor | sence of Any Middle 5 i Class of People Ab.! Bxitered at the postoffice at Bemidji, Minnesota, as second-class matter, | —_— Lines to Be Remembered. We should give as we would re- ceive:’ cheerfully, quickly land without hesitation ; for there is nb_grace in benefit that sticks to the fingers—Sefi- eca. i ol Telephone 922 By Raipia H. Turner (United Press Correspondent.) S Waghington, ‘Dec. l3:.).-—l’enple be- | o attentis i ibuti ’ keenly philosophical in.a coun-, No attention paid to anonymous contributions. Writer's name must come 7 i gl icati s.o_ |try where revolutions have been fea. be known to the editor, but not necessarily for publication. Commaunica- (15 WHCEE TR0 at country’s history. under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. tionis far the Weekly Pioneer must reach this office not later than Tuesday ( icati I . = e Every-day philosqphy in -Mexico, | . < = ; _ of each week to insure: publication in the current issue. lbrbian phno‘guphy “which fre- | A i R S 2 ! quently is expressed by no more than' [ mfifimfi 5 N e @———————— a shrig of the shoulders—has been = = . N ik 2 S | developed to the highest point. ~And : v . . *______‘_T‘—__—-—————i‘yet even the Mexican, despite his! I jne . A . . teeling of . indifference, is preparing i y - e L £ su c'“"'q‘ RATES |today to begin life over agaii. He is| | A % By Carrier : p By Mail . |going ahead in anticipation of aj 1 One Year $6.00 o Year 5.00, “new deal”, believing that he and his| ’ i Six~Months . 3.00 One children have greater cause for hope i 'ghuou ‘Rfl“ 189 "six Months . than at any time in the last ten ne Month .. [} | years. One Week 16 Three Months 1" That spirit, with its varied mani-, 2 {festations, is the index to the social| - THE WERRLY PIONEER--Twelve pages, published every Thursday congition of Mexico today. It repre-| and sent postage paid to any address fcr, in advance, $2.00. |sents the thought of Mr. Average OFFICIAL COUNTY AND CITY PROCEEDINGS ;Mann - X — | 'The whole population, with the ex- I ception of a few disgruntled politi- ARE WE FACING MORAL BANKRUPTCY. |clans and military men, is sick of ‘The great war has left multitudes of our peoplefwor“ ev:)]:lniton; the c;u;ntryth:nsth;een : & -dri i 1i ] t)iewilooe,romonee 0 of L e r o 1 1 nerve rb“Ck}eld’ care-driven, ,‘;‘?‘xm‘l‘(si’ l:?s(llxr??smgaciliia"y gone,| And so the Mexican makes ready | This is the “Mark Twain Rock” on the west coast of Vancouver fsland, never be the same again. e 0 pra held |foF another start. Peoble who flood-| British Columbia, so-called because of its remarkable resemblance to the In the rush for pleasure and money the old restraints that held |¢q into Mexico City from the provin-|.great humorist. \ - youth back from vice have been weakened and the hedges of |ces, because the capital offered a| j 7= custom and tradition builded by ‘our fathers for the protection |greater degree of shelter from ma-| —_—— < Here is‘somsthing new, direct from the Ford factory. - A Genuine Ford. _ Part which enables us to furnish you _a choice of two different gear ratios for both the Ford car and Ford-truck. of character have been broken down.. Even a careless reading 70 "8 (i teps. They are goinglnlthaugh statistics show mo loss in The Roses. We can give you e«}t}}er more 'DOWGI“ of the newspapers, with their stories.of strikes, riots, arrests,|pack to the farm or the store. Ex- | consumption for that reason. The ten rose was formerly known or more speed. Thisis soniething en- bomb throwing, flames kindled by incendaries and the arrests iles who were expelled by one or the| The Mexican sense of humor is|as the tea-scented China -rose, be- , tirely new, see us at once. ) ‘ i rauding rebels, are beginning now to { * Notceto Al Ford Owners | p g i i { other of the various regimes since the pighly @ developed, particularly | cause of “its peculiar frogrance, said of bolshevists are most disturbing. _ s {fall of Porfirid Diaz In 1910 are Qur census indicates that our illiterate population is grow-| ¢oa o home from New York and! ing more rapidly than we are building schools and churches. London, Paris and, Madrid. o when the tamous tenar vislt-| Se Abranam Huse receisliy from The census reports now 11,500,000 people who cannot read or| But the present is still.the period ed Mexico City and sank in the bulli yq¢ coufitry, in 1809, the first of this write, and yet about 100,000 school teachers and about 20,000/ ot mni":;o?i;‘:‘zm x'mtlié "‘%’li‘:n“’&;iifi““ I& e tt:‘leol:;gist tplenvceerzu;;del‘l_- variety sent to Europe, & specimen Py Sthi 2 i ernment fin s stride an 3 i e an vas thr ed a 'y g 4 ghed e % ministers, out of about 150,000, have within a brief time been attention to a score of pressing do-|formance. the Mexicans of every so- :X‘l:ll"edg:‘:l&ght‘:fl“:;;:"?'s rgsl:.elxl\‘glt;: | amoig. the peon classes. There is|to resemble that of a newly opgded . staryed ‘out of their professions. A certain factory containsipc.iic and international problems, | cial class having a keen appreciation ety l ad 't ~ he story, for instance, that involves | tean chest. It originated in_ China, Tel970 . A 0. W. JEWETT COMPANY he. § 1,181 foreign-born workers, speaking Polish, Italian, %&EfliSh. at the same‘tl;ne obtbnhflr:g q;lllftrnxdcinllof music,rh(laruso '""51 finished ‘;Car— Finni e ian, ri Japanese and inese.{2nd moral aid from abroad; wi ex-|men.” The tremendous applause T - N F!n“mh' gre;‘:h %utt}::};i Senl‘blf t}; Eg fn;"~ ngrs c:nnot even read |ican national lite approach a state of | was followed by a hush, when a pe- French Leave.” Five hundreds and thirteen of these “ofe/g e oAl e e moantime, the | on, o bull fight fan a3 well as a mu-| Mgny authorities belleve that the in his seat and de-|term “French leave” originated in-a " or write in their own language. But to these 11,000,000 reported | yexican offers further proof—if such fsic lover, argse French custom in the eighteenth cen- as illiterate there must be added other millions who [for one|were needed—that human nature re—;m;nde;’l llloudly: “Otro toro!” (an- b 0 een able to analyze the problems|mains the same, no matter how many |other bull). tury ‘of withdrawing from €ro as- | i A e e i % international ‘boundary _lines ~are| 5 semblies withopt taking leavé of host or hostess. Others maintaln that the | / of tariffs and taxation. o P he: Mexi e Tl In an sutocracy it is an easy task to educate the ruler; edu- movies (Amerelcmne:nz:‘llesg)?e;ru%]bleflSUBSCRlBE FOR THE O RS nmench” 18 8 corruption” of DAILY PIONEER /| “frant cate the.ezar or the kaiser, and the task is fulfilled. In a re-|about the high cost of living, and . public the task of educating the rulers means the higher edu-|loves his children. 7 ! cation for every boy and girl. dn Mexico City, a thoroughly mod- - » meaning “free.” It does not promise well for the next generation that 10,- ern capital, he attends the thestre,| 000,000 of the 20,000,000 of our youth under eighteen years of age never cross the threshold of any church—Protestant or Catholic, Gentile or Jew. Yet the Ten Commandments are as universal and unsectarian as thé laws of gravity or the multipli-| ) _| probably spends his m%uey\mm-c 1 cation table. : If a boy is allowed to grow up without knowledge of the fundamental principles of wrong and right, has the state to disclaim all responsibility when it imprisons that boy, or possibly nuts a rope around his neck and chokes him to death? - London, in 1916, with a population of over 7,000,000, had nine premeditated murders; Chicago, with one-third the popu- lation, had 105. ' If Chicdgo and London had had the same popu- lation, Chicago would have had 315 murders, against London’s 9. New .York, with approximately a population equal to Lon- don’s, had six timés more homicides, and has a larger number of homicides than the total population of 38,000,000 in England and Wales. During the three-year period between 1916 and 1913. Glasgow had 38 homicides; Philadelphia, 281. Los An- geles is,only one-twenthieth the size of London, and yet has more homicides than the English capital. ! Immigration from Europe threatens to become an inundat- stages an exuberant party with about | the same tegularity as an American | did in the pre-amendment days and ernoon. He is a devout Catholic, but lLas never heard of a “blue law.” He ishly than an Anglo-! B! with a similar income. The cost of living, for & Mexican with a comtort-| able income, needn’t vary much from what it costs in the United Staté. One ! thing just about balances another. He must pay more for a great many articles, because they are imported, | but he can maintain a-whole corpsi of servants for the same expenditure that one would involve froni the Rio Grande north. Vegetables, fruit and some kinds of | the meats (the goat, especially the; {kid, is pgpular), cost less than in! an American metropolis. Fuel is a! minor item in Mexico City, because of the temperate climate. If the Mex- jcan lives at a hotel, he may pay any- | where from $2 to $6 (United States/ currency) a day for his room, though | goes to the bull fight on Sundasggaft-' 74 7 PUT A SHO IN THE STOCKING e 1 / FOR CHRISTMAS . It's the practical thing to do and ‘when you realize that one spends two-thirds of a life<time in shoes it is the SENSIBLE GIFT for a man, womanor child. . J JUST-WHAT- WANTED L " It’s the natural expression, when the “Horray for the slippers. I never gift package is opened and a pair of needed anything quite so mueh.” JUST WHAT I NEEDED _ ing flood. The commissioner of immigration tells us that 1,000, Y f & 000 Poles and 260,000 Polish Jews, have applied for Tl | e ers fenand. | _ gion to come to the United States. The government of Italy is|House rents are high, as practically shoes meets their gaze. & That’s the kind of appreciation which - makes giving wortl'_l while. ar, encouraging its men to seek work in our country, and it is be-| lieved that about four millions of Italians will, during this year,i seek entrance. ©Once peace has been made with Russia, and| the gates of exit have been thrown open, it is absolutely cer-: tain that the very first movement among many, many millions! will be to seek permission to leave Russia and enter the United ! States. One of our great experts estimates the number of prob-! able immigrants within the next fifteen months at a million and | a half, with tén millions more seekink entrance. Left to them- selves, this would mean an inundation of mud. Butif intelligenti and patriotic Americans bestir themselves and put our institu-, tions to their full use, these millions of newcomers can be Ameri-| canized, assimilated and brought into full touch with our free| “institutions. ’ ‘Immediately after the armistice several thousand Ameri- can business men hurried to Great Britain and entered into | enormous contracts for cotton and woolen goods. Some of| these contracts were formal documents, and some represented | informal letters, Having full confidence in the word and bond! of Americans, English manufacturers produced the goods in accordance. with the specifications. But during the past sum-| mer the goods dropped in value, and the Americans found it} impossible to sell the goods at a profit, upon the basis of the| price agreed upon. Many cabled that they must withdraw from! their contracts. Meanwhile, British manufacturers have com-| pleted the goods according to specifications. The British Board | of Trade has sent to the American Chamber of Commerce over | /twenty millions of dollars of contracts. with Americans that |, ‘have been repudiated. The bitterness of the British financial | Jjournals and trade papers is beyond all words. ' | T'heae Americans, who repudiated their, contracts, are breaking down the morals of the business world, and illustrate a3 lqw standard, which, before the war, did not even exist in| business circles, The result is a condition approaching chaos. | 3t is quite possible for Americans in a short time to throw away a reputation for fair play and honest dealing that was achieved by long time and the highest standards of honor in business. —_— COWS BREAK BUTTER RECORD kuown, the record, which is unoffi- = lcinl. never before has been approach- (By United Press) ed. The cow making the best butter | Buffalo, Dec. 20—A record for pro- |average was Segis Fayne —~Plertle, | ducing butter and with 1,115 pounds of butter and 20,- Y and milk never before | g¢"nongs of milk. ‘As high as 24,- no building has been done during the revolutionary days. It is begin- ning now to revive. One difficulty with life in Mexico City—the one that most Americans encounter—is the social condition that has overlooked any provision for the middle ¢lass. The “high ciass” Mexican geferally limits his busi- ness activities to either owning prop- erty, and deriving the income there- from, or playing some part in the , management of the government. Both have been paying propositions in the past. The mergpandising business and the operation of mines, | oil properties .andjother resources is generally in the hanas of foreigners. The poorer glasses get along ;,Lxe best. they can. Frequently their condition ! seems\pititul to an American. It is| common for three or four people to| live, sleep and eat in one room.. The, room dogen‘t have to be a large one, | either. Deans and corn are the chief articles of diet. The cotton gar-| ments, a Sombrero and a pair of san-/ dals are the principal forms of rai-! ment worn by the people of the poor-| est class. How a Mexican clerk can' live on one hundred pesos ($50) a month, and present a good appear- ! ance, may seem beyond comprehen- sion, but it is done. Almost the best in Mexican servants may be obtained| tweny or twenty-five pesos monthly. . | ‘As a result of the social structure, | an American may have difficulty to avoid the alternatives of living either | as an ofl magnate or a day laborer. | For instance, there are no ‘‘quick lunch” restaurants in Mexico City.| Dinner, in the middle of the.day, is! an event which requires the, fullest | attention.: Business houses close from 1 to 3, sometimes longer.. The time is devoted largely to eating. and then to sleeping. After a full Mexican metl the siesta is almost indispen- sable and comes easily, as sleep comes | to one who is drugged. 4 But there’s another alibi for sleep | besides the length of 2+ Mexican |menu/ Mexico City is about 7.500 -.;l'(A ST 2 X e 8ttained has been made by five cows, Yy five COWS.: 000 pounds of milk was produced bY | feet above sea level and the alti- ‘on a-yearly test, at the Pine Grove|omne cow. Farm, Elma, N. Y, & Buffalo sub- urb. Oliver Cabana, Jr., owener of the farm and owner of a million- dollar- herd of Holzteins. has ‘an- mnounted. The five cows have pro- “ duced 100,000 pounds of milk and in excess of 5,000 pounds of butter dur-- Unlucky Thirteen. Nearly a dozen important streets in London have no houses numbered 13, evidently in deference to the popular superstition which regards that num- |tude has strange and varied effects. One requires more sleep, the doctors explain, because many of the ozgans |of the body are forced to work over- |time. Al:o. eges muat - be boiled |longer, if cne takes them that way.| “Fried, straizht up,” is not affected | by the altitude. Comsumption of al-| %ghzu 40:&,‘; nmrd:n‘ to. Cabana. | ber as unlucky. coholic drinks i held to be extreme- vfi_‘ lbu e an average of three; -_—r = = |1y dangerous. because of the alti- . pounds’of butter per day. So far as|Subscribe for\ The Daily Pioneer. tude's manipulations with the heart, You Are Thinking What to Buy—So Are We 5 These May Help You to Decide LADIES—GIRLS 12 in. high top boots Utz & Dunn dress shoes Satin boudoir slippers Hylo felt slippers House moccasins 1 strap suede. pumps MEN-=BOYS Hylo felt slippers Dress shoes Heavy boot§ House moccasins | CHILDREN Simplex high top booty STORE OPEN EVENINGS THIS WEEK prese i 20" The “B & D" Shoe Store (Next to City Drug Store) 307 BELTRAMF'AVE. PHONE 45-W